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Uploaded by on Jul 16, 2008

(There is no dialogue in this video) This is the bell in Parliament's Clock Tower (Big Ben). The bell at the centre of this film is called Big Ben. There are two possible explanations for the bell's name:

- It could have been named after Sir Benjamin Hall, the First Commissioner of Works, who was a tall man and known in the House of Commons as Big Ben.

- It may have been named after a champion heavyweight boxer of the time called Ben Caunt. He fought his last fight in 1857 when it was being decided what to call the bell.

Visit http://www.parliament.uk/bigben for more information about Big Ben.

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  • freakin' awesome video... i favorited it... thanks !!

  • Cool :-D

  • ...... I SAID.... IT'S BLOODY LOUD

  • just wanna stand right inside that bell.

  • Hope you can come :)

  • These videos are made by the people who run Big Ben

  • jee i really wanna go to london

  • anyway.. you should be deaf after making this vid XD

  • im going to london in two weeks =D its going to be so cool!! but first i will have to do a task about Big Ben...

  • Thats how my big ben works

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